• Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.16-26
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• 2022

This study was to investigate what pre-service teachers pay attention to when designing science lessons. As a result of analyzing the responses of pre-service teachers, it is analyzed that pre-service teachers are designing science lessons with emphasis on science inquiry, considering students' interest, level, and treatment of misconceptions, and closely related to daily life. In particular, it was found that elementary school pre-service teachers made a lot of comments on science class design that emphasizes experimentation and inquiry, so it was found that emphasizing inquiry was recognized as an important point in science lesson design. It is very positive that pre-service teachers recognize important aspects of science education, such as emphasizing inquiry. In addition, it is suggested that the opportunities for class design and demonstration through collaboration with teachers and colleagues should be increased for pre-service teachers' professional development of teachers.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.259-281
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• 2016

Teaching practicum plays a significant role in teacher education program because it provides pre-service teachers with an opportunity to apply what they have learned to the actual teaching contexts. As such, it needs to be conducted in terms of close collaboration between university and school. Given that, in a mathematics methods course the prospective teachers in this study had an opportunity to discuss mathematics lessons they had implemented during their teaching practicum. This paper analyzed in what ways prospective teachers' comments on elementary mathematics instruction were changed through this experience. The results of this study showed that in late comment the teachers tended to focus more on mathematical discourse, consider not only the teacher of the lesson but also students, and suggest alternative approaches on the classroom events they had noticed. It is noticeable that the results analyzed by researchers were consistent with prospective teachers' self-assessment. Building on these results, this paper provides implications of teacher preparation programs to enhance prospective teachers' ability to analyze elementary mathematics lessons.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.183-206
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• 2018

It arises that teachers' professional competence should be considered not only with a cognitive perspective but also with a situative perspective. In this study, we considered mathematics teacher noticing as situational professional competencies of a mathematics teacher, and explored how mathematics teachers noticing on children's development of reasoning about variability in a video club has changed with the situative perspective. Findings illustrate that the 'interpreting' component among the three components of noticing-attending, interpreting, and deciding how to respond-was critically decisive for the change of the participant teachers' noticing. We also discussed how the video club intervention(the framework of children's development of reasoning about variability) can support the development of teacher noticing as a professional competence. This study has implications on the design of a video club to improve mathematics teacher noticing.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.139-155
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• 2015

This study aimed to investigate teacher learning in the context of a community. For the purpose of this study, two research questions about the kinds of teacher noticing in a community and the role of partnership were addressed. To build a learning community, a professional development project, PRIME, established partnerships with 11 high schools and one of the cluster meetings were investigated in this study. Three mentor teachers, three preservice teachers, and one university supervisor participated in the cluster meeting. For this study, the multiple data such as audio tapes of cluster meetings, observation notes, and interviews were analyzed using the analysis of narratives. The results showed that the participants engaged in different kinds of noticing of their own beliefs about teaching and learning, teacher practices, and teacher identities including noticing of students' understanding in classroom situations. The partnership played the crucial role of reinforcing relationships among teachers, assigning tasks, and creating various communities.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.439-464
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• 2020

This study conducted a systematic review of mathematics teacher learning communities, especially the characteristics of teacher collaboration in community activities. Our review includes 14 research papers published in national academic journals indexed in KCI and 24 research papers in international academic journals indexed in SSCI from 2003 to 2019. Results show that the literature varied in research design, research topics, and patterns relating to teacher collaboration. While both international and national papers report teacher community activities concerning the organization, management, and participation, there were different levels of involvement, visions, and activities across the communities of practice. For example, research in national journals has presented teacher community as professional development while papers in international journals have focused on documenting teacher community becoming a reflective community of practice. This study contributes to understanding the interplay of context, conflicting epistemic culture, and professional agency in fostering collaboration in teacher communities. This paper also discusses relevant research methods to investigate mathematics teacher communities and insights into the policy and practice of mathematics teacher education.

• Journal of Elementary Mathematics Education in Korea
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.399-424
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• 2014

Although teacher preparation programs are important for prospective teachers to build a foundation of teaching expertise, there has been lack of research in this area. This paper analyzed in what ways prospective teachers' ability in describing and commenting on elementary mathematics instruction has been changed while they were taking in the course of teaching elementary school mathematics. The results of this study showed that in late description the teachers tended to notice the core flow of a lesson and the use of instructional strategies appropriate to the mathematical content to be taught. They also tended to comment on instructional strategies and mathematical discourse from the teacher's perspective and evaluated them without alternative approaches. A noticeable change occurred in late comments wherein prospective teachers considered both the teacher and students, supported their comments by theories they had learned through the course, and interpreted the classroom events they had noticed. Building on these results, this paper closes with implications of teacher education programs to enhance prospective teachers' ability to analyze elementary mathematics lessons.

• School Mathematics
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.691-712
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• 2017

It is an important to develop teachers' statistical reasoning or thinking by teacher education. In this study, the "comparing two data sets" tasks is focused as a way to develop pre-service elementary teachers' reasoning about core ideas of statistics such as distribution, variability, center, and spread. 6 teams of each 4 pre-service elementary teachers participated on the tasks and their presentations are analyzed based on Pfannkuch's (2006) teachers' inference model in comparing two data sets. As a result, they paid attention to the distribution and variability in the statistical problem solving by the "comparing two data sets" tasks, and used their contextual knowledge to make a statistical decision. In addition, they used some statistics and graphs as the reference for statistical communication, which is expected to provide implications for improving statistical education. The finding implies that the "comparing two data sets" tasks can be used to develop statistical reasoning of pre-service elementary teachers. Some recommendations are suggested for teacher education by these tasks.

• Communications of Mathematical Education
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.717-727
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• 2002

최근 Ma에 의한 한 연구는 국 ${\cdot}$ 내 외에서 상당한 관심을 불러일으키고 있다. 미국의 수학교육, 특히 초등 수학 교육 현장의 근본적인 문제점을 명확히 지적했기 때문일 것이다. 본 글에서는 그의 연구를 개략적으로 소개한다. 특히, 그의 연구로부터 교사의 교과 내용에 관한 정확한 이해와 지식이 얼마나 중요한지 주목하여, 우리 나라의 수학교육에 관한 시사점을 교사 교육과 교사 재교육 등의 측면에서 도출한다.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.349-369
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• 2012

In the present reflective study, the research findings of professional development in mathematics education are reviewed and significant ideas that emerged are addressed in ter ms of (1) building on collaborative effort; (2) focusing on content knowledge; (3) centering on students' learning and bringing forth teacher knowledge; (4) perception-based and conception-based perspective; 5) situating in the context of teaching and sustained over ti me. Then it is followed by suggesting what components a desirable professional develop ment program needs to include and a possible direction toward which future research on professional development in mathematics education heads.

• Proceedings of The KACE
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• 2017.08a
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• pp.167-169
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• 2017

기술의 발전에 따라 사회, 경제, 산업에서 다양한 변화를 겪고 있다. 이러한 변화를 4차 산업 혁명이라고 부르며, 이러한 변화를 주도하는 기술로 로봇이 주목받고 있다. 로봇은 다양한 연구에서 교육적 효과가 뛰어나다는 것이 확인되었고, 이에 따라 로봇을 교육에 도입하기 위한 다양한 연구가 진행되었다. 하지만, 로봇교육과 관련된 다양한 요인이 로봇 교육의 활성화를 저해하고 있었다. 특히, 다른 나라에 비해 예비 교사의 로봇에 대한 태도는 부정적이었으며, 이러한 부정적인 태도는 2015 개정 교육과정에서 로봇 교육의 어려움을 유발할 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 예비 교사의 로봇에 대한 태도와 다양한 요인에 따른 차이를 분석하였다. 연구 대상은 K 대학에 다니고 있는 317명의 예비 교사이었으며, 예비 교사의 로봇에 대한 태도를 측정하기 위하여 선행 연구에서 활용한 Negative Attitude towards Robots Scale(NARS)를 사용하였다. NARS를 통하여 예비 교사의 로봇에 대한 태도를 살펴본 결과, 성별에 따라 예비 교사의 로봇에 대한 차이가 나는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한, 로봇을 조작한 경험과 로봇 관련 강의를 수강한 여부가 로봇에 대한 태도가 차이 나게 만드는 요소인 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 반대로 매체를 통한 로봇을 접촉한 경험은 로봇에 대한 태도에 관련이 없었다. 이와 같은 연구를 통하여 예비 교사의 로봇에 대한 태도에 미치는 요인을 살펴볼 수 있었다. 향후 연구에서는 예비 교사의 로봇에 대한 태도를 긍정적으로 바꾸기 위한 방안에 대한 연구가 필요하다.